Technology Briefs

Updated Feb. 5, 1997 12:42 a.m. ET

Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric in Accord

Texas Instruments Inc. agreed Tuesday to jointly develop one-gigabit dynamic random access memory semiconductor chips with Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp., both Japanese semiconductor makers. The three companies will spend upward of 100 billion yen ($82 million) to develop a one-gigabit DRAM chip, which they hope to put on the market by 2000, a Hitachi spokesman said. The agreement between the three companies includes technology sharing and research and development of process and design capabilities to make a prototype one-gigabit chip. Hitachi and Texas Instruments...